An Laffut

List of John Benjamins publications for which An Laffut plays a role.

Title

Three-Participant Constructions in English: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations

An Laffut

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 79] 2006. ix, 268 pp.

Articles

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Davidse, Kristin, Liesbet Heyvaert and An Laffut 2015 Conjunctive structures in learner English: A qualitative analysis of hortatory expositions English Text Construction 8:2, pp. 236–264 | Article

In this paper we address the issue of conjunction use in learner writing from a text-structuring angle, focusing on hortatory expositions by NNS learners and NS professionals. The learners are advanced Dutch-speaking students of English, while the professionals are journalists writing for British… read more

Buyse, Kris, Eva Saver, An Laffut and Herlinda Vekemans 2011 UrgentiAS, a lexical database for medical students in clinical placements: Architecture, use and evaluation Researching Specialized Languages, Bhatia, Vijay, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes (eds.), pp. 191–210 | Article

The UrgentiAS database was compiled to meet the needs of Dutch-speaking Belgian medical students attending classes of Medical English/French/Spanish to prepare for their clinical placements abroad. The database provides students with an easy-to-use multilingual medical lexicon, which can help them… read more

Blanpain, Kristin, Liesbet Heyvaert and An Laffut 2008 Collex-Biz: A Corpus-Based Lexical Syllabus for Business English ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 155, pp. 77–93 | Article

This paper reports on the development of Collex-Biz, a corpus-driven web-based learning platform for general economic English. The design of this platform was informed by a number of research-based principles, particularly frequency and collocation, which are insufficiently incorporated in… read more

Van Hulle, Dirk and An Laffut 2008 Texts under construction, constructions under scrutiny: Introducing English Text Construction English Text Construction 1:1, pp. 1–3 | Article

Laffut, An and Kristin Davidse 2003 English locative constructions: An exercise in neo-Firthian description and dialogue with other schools The Interaction of Data, Description, and Theory in Linguistics: Functional perspectives, McGregor, William B. (ed.), pp. 169–207 | Article

In this article, we set out to describe the general ‘lexicogrammar’ of English locative constructions within a broadly neo-Firthian theoretical frame. First, we look at the question of how the verb and its participants — nominal and prepositional — are structurally integrated with each other. To… read more

Laffut, An 1999 Review of Brinkmann (1997): The Locative Alternation in German: Its Structure and Acquisition Functions of Language 6:2, pp. 275–280 | Review

Laffut, An 1998 The Locative Alternation: A Contrastive Study of Dutch vs. English Languages in Contrast 1:2, pp. 127–160 | Article

In this paper, I elaborate a 'lexicogrammatical approach to the locative alternation in Dutch and English, in which the semantics of the constructions is related directly to the semantic features of their verbs. First I take stock of the different verb classes associated with one or both variants… read more